The Hospitality and Tourism Administration program at Centennial College is a three-year offering that prepares students for administrative and management positions in all areas of the hotel industry.

1. Hospitality and Tourism Administration Program Ensures
Diverse Range of Career Opportunities for Grads
What good is a post-secondary program if it can’t guarantee its students a
range of post-graduate options? After all, college and university programs
are the vessels that launch students’ careers or help them transition into
further education should that be part of their goal. Centennial College has a
longstanding reputation for launching students into success by ensuring
they are totally career ready and by forging relationships with other
institutions that allow students to meet their educational goals by applying
credits to bypass certain courses and graduate in less time.
Centennial College’s Hospitality and Tourism Administration is an
excellent example of a program that presents students with a host of
options once they graduate. If students are ready to launch their careers,
they may do so in administrative positions in areas that cover the entire
hotel industry, including: financial management, housekeeping
management, food and beverage management, human resources, sales and
marketing management, general management, convention services
coordination and tour coordination. This wide range of options ensures that
students of the program will certainly find a career that is in their area of
interest. Students who, on the other hand, wish to obtain more education
can use Centennial College’s partnerships with selected universities,
institutes and professional associations to their advantage. This program’s
partners are: Athabasca University, International Hotel Management
Institute (Switzerland), Vancouver Island University, University of Calgary,
University of Guelph, University of New Brunswick, University of South
Carolina (U.S.A.) and Royal Roads University (B.C.).
There are many other benefits to the program. Firstly, it takes three years
to complete, which ensures that students are obtaining a thorough
education and are being exposed to
cover many topics that will fully prepare them, including: dimensions of
tourism, hospitality and tourism marketing, theory of food, world geography
for tourism, presenting and communicating effectively, Ontario culture and
heritage tourism product, front office operations, wholesale tour operations,
meeting and convention management, groups and incentives, responsible
tourism and marketing strategies.
Secondly, it balances theory and application of that theory. Hands-on
practice is especially beneficial because it allows students to become
comfortable with the tasks they will complete - and there are plenty of
chances for students to practice on-campus. That’s because the tourism and

2. hospitality administration offering is based at Progress Campus, which is
home to all School of Hospitality, Tourism and Culture programs and
includes a conference centre that is run by students, a restaurant that
serves as a living lab as well as residences, which give students the
opportunity to interact with “guests” and see how a hotel operates.
Another way in which students receive hands-on practice is to actually be
sent into the field to experience how their positions function in the real
world and how they will fit in with all of the other hotel departments. The
four-day-per-week, 15-week field placement takes place in the final
semester of the offering. It can be used to enhance students’ resume.